This was not only helpful as a windsurfer learning, but also as someone who is always trying to help friends jibe better, eye opener for some things to look out for and ways to help them!
Have a great year ahead and thanks for sharing the "how to not entertain a Jibe" video which puts the angle to what to avoid and progress from there. If I am not mistaken one could keep the speed by sailing clew first longer in light wind conditions. My key take aways were: get low to go(bending the knees), step more forward onto the board when switching the stance and maintain the railward pressure at all times for a smooth arc from downwind to downwind.
This was very helpful. I can see some of my own mistakes from the past and present in the student videos. I've been trying to learn to switch my feet first before flipping the sail, but it's hard after spending the last 30 years switching my feet after the sail flip. I can see the obvious benefits though. One thing I noticed is that almost everyone (except that Danish sailor and you) tends to let the sail pull them off balance downwind during the sail flip. I've struggled with that quite a bit too, but am learning to avoid it. It was good to see Lucas make some progress with that. One key way to avoid getting pulled off balance (I've learned) is to slide your front hand all the way to the mast before flipping the sail.
Fantastic format! Watching intermediate windsurfers jibe and getting immediate analysis of their mistakes has really helped me see where I need to make adjustments. Over the Winter I have set up a dry land rig in my garage using the bottom section of a mast, a boom and a rope to tension the boom. I use this daily to practice my sail rotations and foot transitions on the board to hopefully build some muscle memory for when I get out on the water again. The lakes here in British Columbia 🇨🇦 are frozen solid. I hate Winter🥶 I knew I should have become a videographer rather than a teacher😆
Thanks for the tips on my gybe Nico, you are completely right and I do struggle with the control when its more choppy. The radius tips are also very useful.
Nico, thanks so much for the video! The tip about the back foot closer to the front foot strap was so crucial for my exit part. Once again , thank you. I really appreciate what you are doing for us.
Most carve jibe tutorials on youtube recommend to set the back foot towards the back of the board and then put the front foot in front of it ("heel to toe") when making the switch. You recommend to put the back foot behind the front footstrap to engage the whole rail. Is that only a good technique for big boards? It would be hard to change the technique depending on board size.
Great explanation. Such a tricky maneuver but great when it succeeds. Another tip for the shoulders, look in the direction you want to go and not at your hands.
Great video! Really interesting to see how intermediate windsurfers all make the same mistakes: 1) weight too far back. 2) straight legs. 3) sail closed and leaning into the corner. 4) lack of commitment in the exit phase. Best way to learn jibing is to jibe around a mark/buoy/floater, even better if following a (expert) coaching buddy.
Poor lukas, great effort, not only unlearning his foot position but having to explain in a foreign language. As an englishman with a smattering of foreign language skills I am always impressed by every other person on the planet that can converse well in their non native tongue. Excellent video and great tips.
PS: 👍🏼 for Lukas/Lucas really good improvement in your jibes and a very nice share waves session with Nico (despite the cold weather in Northern Germany 🥶)
For sure the full planing jibe is almost a dark art 🙂 That last section when flipping the sail is always where the speed goes and the balance becomes more tricky 🙂 real speed and flat water do make this a lot simpler.
Hi Nico, really helpful video and I'm loving this new format!! This is extremely useful! One wish for 2022: please do a similar video also for the waterstart! Thank you, Chris
Absorbing the chop is a great tip. I know how important that is because one of my knees is fixed due to an operation. For me, gybing will always be a great challenge. But with your other tips i can improve my technique. Thanks and have a great year.
Very nice, thanks a lot Nico. Can't wait to get back out there when it warms up a bit. One thing I will try is, as you state in the end, you want the shortest amount of time without pressure in the sail. You seem to pull very briefly on the boom with the right arm at 21:33 when moving your back foot to front, then let go of the sail. This likely helps in keeping the board moving for the final few meters onto the new tack, right? I'm saying this as it's the point I often loose speed and end up turning upwind as a consequence. Thanks.
Thanks for this video, its extremely helpful!! I am refining my jibes, and so many of the things you are talking about are things I am currently working on, yesterday I was able to do more planing jibes than I have ever done in one session before. This is by doing most if not all the things you are talking about. Excellent format for a video tutorial, I really enjoyed it. One thing that might be worth a mention is how to read the wind going into a jibe, especially in gusty conditions, if the wind is not there at the end of the jibe, that is not going to get you out planing. I am interested to hear what your visual check on the "pre-jibe" wind is.
Yes this is really the sort of thing I like to see. Thanks Nico. More of this would be good. Not yet done a full plane out in chop and it's handy to see what I need to do to improve it.
Awesome tips!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!! Shout out to Lucas for improving so much in 1 hour. It took me like 10 hours of gybing to improve like That!! Happy new year Nico!! Hope to see you in Viana do Castelo this year!!
Thank you for this video It’s very nice to see other windsurfers who sails about like us with the same defaults Your tips are very precious to correct them At least, it’s nice to see you as a model You give me the motivation to improve Have a nice year 2022
watched the video yesterday, made my first power jibes today! soo cool thank you🤩 really helpful how you described every small movement together with the video material! Keep going!
Lovely instructional video, explain all my mistakes! Mystery why I am loosing a speed during gybe resolved. Hopefully I could remember all those tips next time on the water, as soon as tomorrow I hope.
Thanks Nico for the detailled analysis. I recognize some of my postures in the video, so I'm eager to have it tested asap. Happy new year to you too, and looking forward for new interesting videos.
The most important part is sheeting in by having the back hand further back. This way you put a lot of pressure on the mast foot and therefore keep the board flat and in control. Especially in choppy conditions. And bend your knees! I still suck at jibing, because I'm stupid :D
Very very good analyze of the most difficult steps of the planning jibe. In fact it is a very complex movement and one single fail can effect much and influence the movement of the jibe... After your active race time you should teach the teachers of windsurfing.
Hi Nico, a huge Thank You since I passed my first Carve Jibe Yesterday. Your videos have been very helpfull. Can't wait for the next one-s (jibes and vids).
That was very help- and insightfull! As they say: you learn most from your (or other's) mistakes and I saw quite a few of my own errors in these example video's. Sure hope there will be a follow up in the future. Happy new year!
Truly excellent tutorial. You are addressing a large audience as the majority sails with Freeride boards at moderate windspeeds. I very much like the "how not to do" approach... I noticed that when changing the feet you are moving your foot behind the other foot rather than heel to toe. Is that specific to large boards?
Großartige Entwicklung von Lukas innerhalb einer Stunde wenn mal ein Profi drauf schaut. Deshalb macht sich die eine oder andere Einzelstunde in der Surfschule echt bezahlt. Sonst schleichen sich Fehler ein, die schwer wieder abzustellen sind
Thank you Nico - great stuff to improve. Do you think it is also helpfull if I pull up a bit the front foot witch is still in the foot strap? - While not giving too much pressuere with the back foot into the board / rail??? My local windsurfing dealer (with nearly 70 years) gave me this tipp. And he also said, that I can try to learn it onto the grass first for better balancing. Do you agree with that?
Hi Nico! I see that you put your carving foot quite forward to engage the rail, and then the new back foot *behind* as you switch feet. Other tutos do it the other way (carving foot not as far forward, new back foot *forward* when switching). What do recommend for someone learning to carve jibe? Many thanks for all the amazing videos and best wishes!!
My Mistral Energy (same age as you 😉) is a beast in the jibes. You know, if you remember, it is much smaller on the tail. But you did a good job even with your 8.2 race sail. Any advice for me?
Good video. I'm struggling trying to fix 30 years of bad habits. I can do planing gybes in the flat but as you say bad habits cause issues in chop. I always bend my front arm plus stand up on the rig flip .I'm concentrating on staying low , looking at the exit and trying to let the mast drop into the turn on the entry. I'm gradually improving but I think I'm trying to fix too many things at once! During lockdown I did dryland practise with a rig on the board but you can't practice the bit I need to do which is entering at speed and coming across to initiate the carve .
Firstly thank you for your great channel. So entertaining and professionally done (I am a camera editor for BBC news). My question is about the carve gybe. I usually grab the new side of the boom with an overhand grip. Some other instructors (Guy Cribb) say underhand grip uses stronger muscles to flip the sail. I find it puts my wrist in an arkward position. I wondered what your take on this is. I notice you do both, is it boom height that influences your choice or the sail size? BTW I am 66 but sail and ski with friends who are much younger. I still feel in my head like I'm 35 (I try to avoid mirrors), and a lot of this is due to windsurfing. It's so good for your mental and physical state😊
Great video Nico!! My takeaway, bend the knee MORE :) , I will focus on that because my problem sometimes is that I hit the back of the chop in front of me and I more or less stop... Thx, greetz Lucas
I'm trying to understand the foot switch. The common advise is, that you step down with your back foot, then step down with your front foot IN FRONT of the back foot with it's heel to the toes. But I see Nico and some others do it opposite: Stepping down with the back foot, and placing the front foot BEHIND the back foot in the switch. Any right or wrong - pros and cons here? All the best Per - Denmark
Great video. Quite often I have heard that you should change your feet "heel to toe", meaning that when you change your feet you put your new back foot just in front of you rail foot. I saw that you put your rail foot quite far to the front of the board and, when changing feet, you put your new back foot behind the rail foot. Is this your recommended way or does it depend on circumstances like flat water, choppy water, slalom sail and that kind of thing?
Super content 👌. I'm struggling with my jibes when I do the sail rotation. Should I have my body close to the boom in the moment when I rotate the sail? Thanks again for a very good video 👍
Hi Nico. Thanks for the video. Could you make some video comparing the isonic to futura or another slalom board versus freerace/free ride with cambed sail and not cambed? Could be interesting because sometimes people like me want the same equipment than pwa people and almost all the time i only need early planning and plane with less wind possible and confort and dont need top speed… thanks!
Danke Nico für das Video. Ich werde es gleich anwenden! Vielleicht könntest du auch ein Video machen über sicheres Gleiten bei extremen Chop/Kabbelwellen? ....was ja oft der Fall ist. Thx.
This was not only helpful as a windsurfer learning, but also as someone who is always trying to help friends jibe better, eye opener for some things to look out for and ways to help them!
Verry informative Nico, keep teaching us this way . It's much appreciatie. Happy and healthy 2022 💥🤩🤙
Have a great year ahead and thanks for sharing the "how to not entertain a Jibe" video which puts the angle to what to avoid and progress from there. If I am not mistaken one could keep the speed by sailing clew first longer in light wind conditions. My key take aways were: get low to go(bending the knees), step more forward onto the board when switching the stance and maintain the railward pressure at all times for a smooth arc from downwind to downwind.
This was very helpful. I can see some of my own mistakes from the past and present in the student videos. I've been trying to learn to switch my feet first before flipping the sail, but it's hard after spending the last 30 years switching my feet after the sail flip. I can see the obvious benefits though. One thing I noticed is that almost everyone (except that Danish sailor and you) tends to let the sail pull them off balance downwind during the sail flip. I've struggled with that quite a bit too, but am learning to avoid it. It was good to see Lucas make some progress with that. One key way to avoid getting pulled off balance (I've learned) is to slide your front hand all the way to the mast before flipping the sail.
Fantastic format! Watching intermediate windsurfers jibe and getting immediate analysis of their mistakes has really helped me see where I need to make adjustments. Over the Winter I have set up a dry land rig in my garage using the bottom section of a mast, a boom and a rope to tension the boom. I use this daily to practice my sail rotations and foot transitions on the board to hopefully build some muscle memory for when I get out on the water again. The lakes here in British Columbia 🇨🇦 are frozen solid. I hate Winter🥶 I knew I should have become a videographer rather than a teacher😆
Great improvement Lucas. Always good to see people at the same level and how they overcome common mistakes we all make. Keep these videos coming Nico.
Thanks for the tips on my gybe Nico, you are completely right and I do struggle with the control when its more choppy. The radius tips are also very useful.
Nico, thanks so much for the video! The tip about the back foot closer to the front foot strap was so crucial for my exit part. Once again , thank you. I really appreciate what you are doing for us.
Most carve jibe tutorials on youtube recommend to set the back foot towards the back of the board and then put the front foot in front of it ("heel to toe") when making the switch.
You recommend to put the back foot behind the front footstrap to engage the whole rail. Is that only a good technique for big boards? It would be hard to change the technique depending on board size.
Great progress Lucas! I liked your “rodeo” kick at the start, but Nico is correct. Weight forward: more speed, easier turn.
Great explanation. Such a tricky maneuver but great when it succeeds. Another tip for the shoulders, look in the direction you want to go and not at your hands.
Great video! Really interesting to see how intermediate windsurfers all make the same mistakes: 1) weight too far back. 2) straight legs. 3) sail closed and leaning into the corner. 4) lack of commitment in the exit phase.
Best way to learn jibing is to jibe around a mark/buoy/floater, even better if following a (expert) coaching buddy.
Poor lukas, great effort, not only unlearning his foot position but having to explain in a foreign language. As an englishman with a smattering of foreign language skills I am always impressed by every other person on the planet that can converse well in their non native tongue. Excellent video and great tips.
PS: 👍🏼 for Lukas/Lucas really good improvement in your jibes and a very nice share waves session with Nico (despite the cold weather in Northern Germany 🥶)
Great content Nico. I suffer same issue as Lucas does. Thanks for the tips. Going to practice on Curacao end of February :)
For sure the full planing jibe is almost a dark art 🙂 That last section when flipping the sail is always where the speed goes and the balance becomes more tricky 🙂 real speed and flat water do make this a lot simpler.
Hi Nico, really helpful video and I'm loving this new format!! This is extremely useful! One wish for 2022: please do a similar video also for the waterstart! Thank you, Chris
Absorbing the chop is a great tip.
I know how important that is because one of my knees is fixed due to an operation.
For me, gybing will always be a great challenge.
But with your other tips i can improve my technique.
Thanks and have a great year.
Very nice, thanks a lot Nico. Can't wait to get back out there when it warms up a bit. One thing I will try is, as you state in the end, you want the shortest amount of time without pressure in the sail. You seem to pull very briefly on the boom with the right arm at 21:33 when moving your back foot to front, then let go of the sail. This likely helps in keeping the board moving for the final few meters onto the new tack, right? I'm saying this as it's the point I often loose speed and end up turning upwind as a consequence. Thanks.
Fantastic video and I love the way you cut between your brother-in-law and the other sailors. Great stuff.
one of the key things i learned from dasher's 12 step video is to push your hips forward, the rest of his tutorial is also pure gold
Thanks Nico! You never get enough good jibe videos! Greetings from Estonia!
You've really taken steps. Very sharp. Well edited. This accelerated my learning. Excited to try these tips at choppy Crissy Field.
Thanks for tipps - Nice Video
Thanks for this video, its extremely helpful!! I am refining my jibes, and so many of the things you are talking about are things I am currently working on, yesterday I was able to do more planing jibes than I have ever done in one session before. This is by doing most if not all the things you are talking about. Excellent format for a video tutorial, I really enjoyed it.
One thing that might be worth a mention is how to read the wind going into a jibe, especially in gusty conditions, if the wind is not there at the end of the jibe, that is not going to get you out planing. I am interested to hear what your visual check on the "pre-jibe" wind is.
Yes this is really the sort of thing I like to see. Thanks Nico. More of this would be good. Not yet done a full plane out in chop and it's handy to see what I need to do to improve it.
This is a wonderful way to showcase the learning journey but also to give valuable advice. A fantastic video. Thank you!
Very cool video, Nico. Always great to listen to your explanations and instructions !
Awesome tips!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!! Shout out to Lucas for improving so much in 1 hour. It took me like 10 hours of gybing to improve like That!! Happy new year Nico!! Hope to see you in Viana do Castelo this year!!
Thank you for this video
It’s very nice to see other windsurfers who sails about like us with the same defaults
Your tips are very precious to correct them
At least, it’s nice to see you as a model
You give me the motivation to improve
Have a nice year 2022
watched the video yesterday, made my first power jibes today! soo cool thank you🤩 really helpful how you described every small movement together with the video material! Keep going!
Best instructional vid ever! Thanks
Hardest move to learn in windsurfing: the powerjibe ;-)
Extra thumbs up to Lucas
Happy new year Nico! 🥂
Thanks Nico, very helpful video. Guess I have to rewatch it once winter is coming to an end 😅
Lovely instructional video, explain all my mistakes! Mystery why I am loosing a speed during gybe resolved. Hopefully I could remember all those tips next time on the water, as soon as tomorrow I hope.
Thanks Nico for the detailled analysis. I recognize some of my postures in the video, so I'm eager to have it tested asap. Happy new year to you too, and looking forward for new interesting videos.
Thanks for this one. I had my doubts about the worth of this approach with sent in Jibes but it very beneficial. Thx, Nico.
The most important part is sheeting in by having the back hand further back. This way you put a lot of pressure on the mast foot and therefore keep the board flat and in control. Especially in choppy conditions. And bend your knees! I still suck at jibing, because I'm stupid :D
Really nice video. I hoped for it to be helpful, but didn't thought it would be that good and also that entertaining 😁🤙🏽
😊
Very very good analyze of the most difficult steps of the planning jibe. In fact it is a very complex movement and one single fail can effect much and influence the movement of the jibe... After your active race time you should teach the teachers of windsurfing.
Looking at the exit helped me a lot. That way I could open my shoulders and turn 😁
Hi Nico -- praise to Lukas--I recognise the Problems, thanx , at the lake only a few know how to do it :)-- good luck to you guys!
Hi Nico, a huge Thank You since I passed my first Carve Jibe Yesterday. Your videos have been very helpfull. Can't wait for the next one-s (jibes and vids).
That was very help- and insightfull! As they say: you learn most from your (or other's) mistakes and I saw quite a few of my own errors in these example video's. Sure hope there will be a follow up in the future. Happy new year!
Good tips: especially “ the foot work”
Nice one. I’d love the same tutorial on a small wave board. But really useful tips
Truly excellent tutorial. You are addressing a large audience as the majority sails with Freeride boards at moderate windspeeds. I very much like the "how not to do" approach... I noticed that when changing the feet you are moving your foot behind the other foot rather than heel to toe. Is that specific to large boards?
Großartige Entwicklung von Lukas innerhalb einer Stunde wenn mal ein Profi drauf schaut. Deshalb macht sich die eine oder andere Einzelstunde in der Surfschule echt bezahlt. Sonst schleichen sich Fehler ein, die schwer wieder abzustellen sind
Your videos are so valuable! This is great
Best gybe tutorial ever! Love your work Nico.
oh man this was awesome!! such a good idea and tips. Would love more content like it.
Excellent video, your teaching style is just right, very good advice, clearly put. Please do more 👌
Lucus did really well, made good improvement
Thx, for me it is a great lesson. I can't wait until the Vistula river is free of ice in order to practice yout tips. Happy 2022.
I actually learned to foil jibe this summer!
Very helpful video!!!! Happy and healthy 2022 full of good results!
you are marvellous, thanks!!!
Hallo Nico. Sehr gut gemachtes Video!!! Bitte mehr davon.
Very helpful video, Nico! I realy felt with the errors ))..
Great video! Very helpful tips!
Thank you Nico - great stuff to improve. Do you think it is also helpfull if I pull up a bit the front foot witch is still in the foot strap? - While not giving too much pressuere with the back foot into the board / rail??? My local windsurfing dealer (with nearly 70 years) gave me this tipp. And he also said, that I can try to learn it onto the grass first for better balancing. Do you agree with that?
This was a great vid. Keep these instructional coming !!
Hi Nico! I see that you put your carving foot quite forward to engage the rail, and then the new back foot *behind* as you switch feet. Other tutos do it the other way (carving foot not as far forward, new back foot *forward* when switching). What do recommend for someone learning to carve jibe? Many thanks for all the amazing videos and best wishes!!
Awesome input thanks!
Great vid again! Learned a lot without even surfing. I'm looking forward to ur new vids!
My Mistral Energy (same age as you 😉) is a beast in the jibes. You know, if you remember, it is much smaller on the tail. But you did a good job even with your 8.2 race sail. Any advice for me?
Excellent, thank you.
Good video. I'm struggling trying to fix 30 years of bad habits. I can do planing gybes in the flat but as you say bad habits cause issues in chop. I always bend my front arm plus stand up on the rig flip .I'm concentrating on staying low , looking at the exit and trying to let the mast drop into the turn on the entry. I'm gradually improving but I think I'm trying to fix too many things at once!
During lockdown I did dryland practise with a rig on the board but you can't practice the bit I need to do which is entering at speed and coming across to initiate the carve .
Firstly thank you for your great channel. So entertaining and professionally done (I am a camera editor for BBC news).
My question is about the carve gybe. I usually grab the new side of the boom with an overhand grip. Some other instructors (Guy Cribb) say underhand grip uses stronger muscles to flip the sail. I find it puts my wrist in an arkward position.
I wondered what your take on this is. I notice you do both, is it boom height that influences your choice or the sail size?
BTW I am 66 but sail and ski with friends who are much younger. I still feel in my head like I'm 35 (I try to avoid mirrors), and a lot of this is due to windsurfing. It's so good for your mental and physical state😊
Great video Nico!! My takeaway, bend the knee MORE :) , I will focus on that because my problem sometimes is that I hit the back of the chop in front of me and I more or less stop... Thx, greetz Lucas
Tanks for the class !!!
Nice video again Nico, cant wait tot try out the tips!
Thanks Nico. Happy New Year!
Great video again Nico🔥
Wish you the best for 2022🚀🤙🏼
Happy new year nico!
Happy new year!!
Awesome vid solved most of the problems i have with my jibes
Thanks so much
Fantastic video. Very creative. All the best for 2022 🤙
Happy new year Nico. Well done lucus very challenging with the camera as well
I'm trying to understand the foot switch. The common advise is, that you step down with your back foot, then step down with your front foot IN FRONT of the back foot with it's heel to the toes. But I see Nico and some others do it opposite: Stepping down with the back foot, and placing the front foot BEHIND the back foot in the switch.
Any right or wrong - pros and cons here?
All the best
Per - Denmark
Great video. Hoping to get some planing jibe practice soon and put this to use!
thanks so much Nico HPNY
So good !!!
Well done Lucas
Happy Surf year 🤙
helpful..time for me to get sailing AGAIN
Thanks for the tips! One small suggestion, I think it's better to say "flip the sail" instead of "shift the sail".
Great video!
Great idea for this video!
Lucas! 👍
Very nice and helpful video. I think that the surfer at 19:15 is hooking out to late
Great video. Quite often I have heard that you should change your feet "heel to toe", meaning that when you change your feet you put your new back foot just in front of you rail foot. I saw that you put your rail foot quite far to the front of the board and, when changing feet, you put your new back foot behind the rail foot. Is this your recommended way or does it depend on circumstances like flat water, choppy water, slalom sail and that kind of thing?
Most of us do not sail on "day to day" basis... Very unfortunately! 😁
Super content 👌. I'm struggling with my jibes when I do the sail rotation. Should I have my body close to the boom in the moment when I rotate the sail? Thanks again for a very good video 👍
great video as always
Lucas!!!
Hi Nico. Thanks for the video. Could you make some video comparing the isonic to futura or another slalom board versus freerace/free ride with cambed sail and not cambed? Could be interesting because sometimes people like me want the same equipment than pwa people and almost all the time i only need early planning and plane with less wind possible and confort and dont need top speed… thanks!
Really nice explanation. Prosperous New Year. And lots of racing. Can you guys put thicker pads on the Isonic.🧐
Danke Nico für das Video. Ich werde es gleich anwenden!
Vielleicht könntest du auch ein Video machen über sicheres Gleiten bei extremen Chop/Kabbelwellen? ....was ja oft der Fall ist.
Thx.
th-cam.com/video/ujoz-ZDfps4/w-d-xo.html 🙂
@@Nico_GER7 Cool, das Video kannte ich noch nicht. Werde ich jetzt ausprobieren (y)
Look where you want to go and your body (including shoulders) will follow
Excellent video. The Bro-in-law, needs to slide his front hand forward.
And then he did!